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Hello, Again.

Posted on June 12, 2010 by TwilliK| Leave a comment

((This entire post is written ‘in character’ purely to keep myself interested. It’s also short, you’ll see why tomorrow/monday.))

Dear readers.

I’m Sel’s sister, Iraia. Sis said something about how she needed to go find something, now that the Lich King is dead, so she’s asked me to take care of this journal for her.

She said something about sending letters to an address in Dalaran, and that they’d find their way “across the nether” to here, and presumably to her.

So… yeah. I’m currently working with the Argent Crusaders to help clean up Icecrown, but I’m also doing lots of other things across Azeroth and Outland.

Uhh, talk to you soon,

Yours, Iraia.

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Project TSA Needs You! (To Help Make Decisions)

Posted on April 7, 2010 by TwilliK| Leave a comment

So, I’ve decided to do this thing called Project Top Secret Alt. It’s an idea that came to me when I realised that my main alt is like level 78. So… I kinda need some help.

Like, really bad, guys. I AM NOT SHITTONG YOU GUIZ.

Okay, perhaps that last bit was a little too far.

Anyway, would you kindly pick one from the following list/poll thing.

What Class should this new alt be?

  • Priest (29%, 2 Votes)
  • Hunter (29%, 2 Votes)
  • Warlock (14%, 1 Votes)
  • Shaman (14%, 1 Votes)
  • Druid (14%, 1 Votes)
  • Rogue (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Warrior (0%, 0 Votes)

Total Voters: 7

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So, yeah. No DK, Mage or Pally in here, because I have them at above 60. If the winner already exists (and isn’t a bank alt), it’ll be picked up from where it is at (somewhere between 6 – 19).

If nobody votes, I’ll be kinda sad, and stuff. I mean, this is a relatively short duration poll (like a day or two?) SO GET VOTIN ALREADY, JEEZ.

Other things, like race & spec are 100% my decision, but if you really have an opinion on that, you can leave a comment, savvy?

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Writing Characters

Posted on February 7, 2010 by TwilliK| Leave a comment

So – as an aspiring RPer, (and more so as a writer,) I tend to try and write my characters. Not in a ‘they do this’ narrative fashion, but in a ‘they think this’ fashion.

When I plan out my characters, I get a piece of paper, and write down 3-5 traits that they have. These can (and should) change over time, but they represent the character at the current moment.

For instance, let’s take Selite. (Oh yay.) When I sat down and did this she was level 70 – and had been ‘shaped’ a little, and she’s been ‘shaped’ since, but she’s one of my more static characters.

Selite, at 70.

  • Wants to help people. This is her primary motivation.
  • Wants to obtain more knowledge.
  • Independent.

Now, this is much earlier, and is quite different to the current style I use to write these. But still, these give a good idea of what her motivations and wants will be at a given time. As an example of ‘evolution of character’ I’ll now show you what she’s all about at level 80.

Selite, at right now.

  • Independent.
  • Mercenary disposition.
  • Vengeance to the Scourge.

So, Selite now is much more about killing undead, and getting payed for it. You might notice that I wrote ‘Independent’ first this time. This is what I call the ‘primary motivation’ of a character. While the other factors are a part of her, the higher up the list it is, the more it means to her. (Well, you forgot “likes things to be shiny” and “likes cats” :p)

This whole post isn’t about Sel though. (Boo.) It was inspired by her wonderful younger sister Iraia. (You’ve been hitting on my sister?)

Iraia has recently gone through Dragonblight. Now for those of you not familiar with Warcraft, Dragonblight is a big zone, filled with lots and lots of quests (over 130 of them, at least). The main quest chain in Dragonblight, however, is about the Wraithgate, which is where the forces of the Alliance and the Horde have decided to prepare for their initial assault upon the Lich King. Unfortunately, bad things happen, and they get killed by a dangerous splinter group of undead.

Then a few more quests happen. But before that last part of the quest, you have probably spent the best part of the last 3-5 levels perfecting that plague for the undead. Now, this has changed Iraia dramatically.

She used to be all about (exclusively) ‘Seeing new things’. Being responsible (at least in her eyes) for the deaths of not only a bunch of mooks, but the greatest hero the Alliance has ever know (or so she thinks) has made her quite the introverted Blood Knight (fancy way of saying ‘Paladin’ if you’re a sexy elf). (One more thing, Iraia is technically part of the Horde – not that she feels like she has any reason to hate the Alliance)

Iraia, after Wraithgate & battle of the Undercity.

  • Introvert.
  • Wants to help people.
  • Is inclined to pacifism.

Now this has already changed in the course of the last 12.5 hours, but there’s no rule against that. I say ‘inclined’ as she is still leveling, and as such, is still a Retribution Paladin (basically she hurts things) out of necessity (and don’t say “why don’t you heal randoms”?) – but she’s changed slightly.

Iraia, after completing the quest [Mystery of the Infinite] (level 73 version).

  • Wants to help people.
  • Has come to grips with the fact she needs to use violence.

Now, this quest has some funky time travel bits, so most of this is due to the influence of FUTURE IRAIA! *Cue Twilight Zone music*

Anyway. I’m not sure if that helps you guys think about your characters, but it’s always nice to throw out some examples of what I’m thinking.

New post “Character Interview – Iraia” coming soonish. (I’m thinking before friday, but we will see)

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Leveling like it’s 2005, 7, or 8.

Posted on January 15, 2010 by TwilliK| Leave a comment

Yeah. Someone has been playing some alts. (Hint: that person is me)

Been playing the paladin, who is now sitting at 63 after fully clearing Hellfire (gaining over 5 whole levels in the process), and I did gain a level on the DK (or like half of one), with the drastic reduction in leveling speed in the 70s, I’m not feeling terribly enthused (I’m really just going on Cobalt farming runs and killing things at the same time).

I also started a HUNTARD. He is an orc, and that is the sex. Sexy orc sex, with their sexy oversized shoulder armor. (Disclaimer: He really isn’t the sex at all, Bayonetta is “the sex”.)

Now I’m not the only one leveling alts (mainly because Rilgon is leveling a Mage (awesome) that is frost ( … ) and is a lady Gnome (awesome)) but I am the only person who’s leveling an alt that also happens to post on this blog. ((Why did I feel it necessary to post that, anyway?))

So, what about you guys? Are any of you leveling alts?

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Unqualified Design (2)

Posted on January 5, 2010 by TwilliK| Leave a comment

Now, with that infallible assumption about the size of the world under our belts, I’m going to start on the next argument.

Before I begin, though, I feel the need to state that I enjoy the zones, and their flow, and everything else, and I’m not ‘hating’. I’m simply stating what I feel would be a better direction.

I would like bigger zones. In fact, not even that. I would enjoy having either bigger zones, with more more ‘padding’ OR a larger amount of zones that serve no purpose in the world apart from looking nice (and having rare fishing nodes or something) possibly with some mooks to grind on, but they’d be lower level than the surrounding zone, yellow (not aggressive) and generally leaning towards simple beasts.

These zones would reward exploration. Each one might have a dozen quests, all very simple, often nothing more than courier quests, designed to be a (very slight) reward for visiting them. Here’s an generic example. This is set in a large forested area, like a mix of Elwynn and Grizzily Hills, with occasional houses and stuff. Near one of the trees (spawning at random – spread over a big enough area to make it stupid to farm) you find a book or a letter or something. And then you deliver it. Simple. You might get a few gold too. Who knows.

They would exist entirely for people like me, who have explorer because of a need to know what was on that map before there was an Achievement to clear it all and people with Salty. Because they are fucking crazy, and I wish I was one of them.

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Unqualified Design (1)

Posted on January 4, 2010 by TwilliK| Leave a comment

This post might be annoyingly long. Chances are that it’s really more of a metapost that needs to be explored over a very large amount of time. Who knows. For now, I’m just going to say that it will have more than a single part. You have been warned.

Now. I’m a gamer. Obviously. Like many of you, I’ve been playing World of Warcraft for a long, to very long, time (longer than I’ve played any other game with the possible execption of Diablo 2, and possibly the first Disc of FF7 (not on purpose, that second one)), and as I mature as a gamer, and look back at what I want from a game, I still find Warcraft worthy of playing – and I’m sure I’ll still play it for as long as it is around. However, I feel that the game is… drifting away, from where I really enjoyed it, and for now (this post) I’m going to focus on one simple, succinct point.

The world (of Warcraft) is getting smaller.

I know this is not technically true, but with the release of Cataclysm sometime this year (I’m guessing before Blizzcon, myself, but I could be wrong (really hope not)) the world will shrink enormously. Now I know what you’re thinking. “But TwilliK! You’re stupid, they’re adding more zones and stuff!” But let me ask you, once you get the chance to fly around Azeroth, not just Northrend, the world will shrink down tiny small.

Remember when you got your 60% flyer at level 70? (If you got a 150% flyer at 60 for your first, then this whole post might be lost on you, missing out on the mount/world curve the way you did) Even though you were going slower, because you could fly over gigantic cracks in the ground, mobs, the Fel Reaver, and anything else, you got wherever you were going faster than if you were on your epic ground mount.

Now imagine that in Old World. Wanna go from Orgrimmar to Winterspring? No 5 minute taxi or 30 minute mount ride (plus the five minutes running through the furblog cave) just hop in your flyer, press the space bar for 30-60 seconds, and fly north. You’ll be there bloody quick I bet. Remember those old horrible non optimised flight paths? They did one good thing. They made you appreciate the scope of the world that Blizzard had built.

Anyway, that’s some food for thought. Also, please don’t say “why don’t you just not fly anywhere?” because I know that to be able to go anywhere worth going, I’ll need to be able to fly.

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I Dream a Dream

Posted on January 2, 2010 by TwilliK| Leave a comment

Now, this post has a great name, because with such an ambiguious name, I can talk about almost anything, of course, I’m not that imaginative, so this will be about my recent thoughts while leveling the most fantastic of professions, Enchanting, from ~250 to 350 over the last two days.

Point One : Leveling Enchanting When Capped is a Pain in the Ass. (or LEWCPA, if you like acronyms)
Especially if you are a clothie, and can hardly solo Coilfang normals for mats, at least.
However,  it did give me one great method to get all the crap I need. Loremaster. Chances are, that you have quests from Outlands (and near definitely from old world, but you can solo 60 instances easy anyway) to do, as documented in the Quests-Outlands tab of the Achievement frame. So, pick a zone (I started with Hellfire, as it was the lowest, and I felt like it’d be fun-ish) and look for quests. You’ll get tons of cash (or a bit, whatever) and enough greens to sate your needs (pick weapons wherever possible though, as they are rarer (as you will get green drops as well), unless you specifically need dusts) unless you need lots.

Protip! If you make an account with WoWhead, you can be a sneaky unit and use their new features to see what quests are left in the zone for you to do, by using their client and uploading data. I personally didn’t need it for the Outland or Northrend zones, but think it might come in handy if I decide to get Loremaster on Selite some time. There are also several addons that will mark questgivers on your map for the quests that you have not yet completed (I’m fairly certain Questhelper will do this, and Carbonite probably will too).

Point Two : Even Then Enchanting Still Costs a Billion Gold. (ETESCBG)

This mainly the point that states why I’ve stopped at 350 (Heroic Greens and Blues DEible) instead of 375 (80 epics DEible) to get much further past 350, you need a certain rod, in this case it is the wondrous [Runed Adamantite Rod] or, to be precise, the hellishly annoying to get mats, otherwise known as [Primal Annoyance (Might)] – now, I know this seems slightly stupid, but you’d be surprised how hard it is to find an alchemist who is willing to transmute you one of those around New Years (perhaps that is the problem).

Protip! Be a Blood Elf, they get a bonus to Enchanting, so they can use lower level enchants to level their enchanting higher! (Also we are sexy, what more could you want?)

Now, to solve the mystery of why this post is called what it is, for the 3 people who will read this thinking it is something to do with some speech a guy made in the past (not that they would read to here). This is called what it is (obviously to anyone who has done a heroic since 3.3) because of the frankly scary number of [Dream Shard]s that you get running Heroics non stop.

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Memememe!

Posted on November 14, 2009 by TwilliK| Leave a comment

Yeah, there’s a DPS Meme going around at the moment, so I thought I’d give it a shot.

Got it from Some Crazy DK lady who made this meme up or something. I don’t know.

WARNING. There’s a lot of snark here, but it’s all meant in the name of fun. If you are offended by swearing, caps, or me slagging off your class, then don’t read it.

What is the name, class, and spec of your primary dps?
Selite, ARCANE MAGE! Bringer of portals to Stonard and level 70 tables.

What is your primary dpsing environment? (i.e. raids, pvp, 5 mans)
I am a solowhore. (Which is really bad for a Mage, ne?) I’ll do 5 mans, occasionally, and I’ve been known to switch to fire and go LBing in AV, or playing any BG that isn’t Arathi ‘Hellhole’ Basin.

What dps spell do you use least for your class and why?
Frostbolt? I’ve used that less than 20 times EVER. I think. Out of spells that I might actually use, on occasion, it’s Pyroblast or Arcane Bearage (Barrage). Both are talent-obtained in my solo spec, neither gets used much.

What do you feel is the biggest strength of your dps class and why?
Our fantastic ability to not die in fires as much as you’d expect. When you can only take one tic of damage before dying, you get fairly good at not failing at the Safety Dance (lies) or at Thaddius (So good at Thad.).

What do you feel is the biggest weakness of your dps class and why?
The fact that we are not glass cannons, we’re glass ‘the same as everyone else, kinda’. If a mob even looks at us, we tend to be half dead. So, to put it better, we can’t do shit solo (because we DIE) and we deal okay (= lower than some hybrids = ANGER) DPS.

In a 25 man raiding environment, what do you feel, in general, is the best dps assignment for you?
Single target damage, PEW PEW PEW ON THE BOSS LADYMAN.

What dps class do you enjoy dpsing with most and why?
None. Preferable ones are ones that don’t need gear (because I never have anything drop EVER for me T_T) and if they post recount stats, they get /ignored ’till I remember to take them off.

What tanking class do you enjoy dpsing with least and why?
No preference. I am not so keen on DKs, as they can do everything and are SUPER OP TO THE FUCKING MAX. So DKs. Hate those fuckers, from a mechanical standpoint.

What is your worst habit as a dps?
That I hate everyone else in the raid for some reason or another, chances are, and I’m expected to fucking cater for them and port them out (or get kicked after the first boss in VoA for no reason whatsoever. Isn’t it funny that the fail DPS are always the leaders?)

What is your biggest pet peeve in a group environment while dpsing?
DPS that do more DPS than me, and spam recount in 5mans. NOBODY GIVES A SHIT. NO ONE. (that cares. You’re doing the best DPS, mr feral rogue? Get fucked, me and my hunter mates will be over here, crying.)

Do you feel that your class/spec is well balanced with other dps?
Yeah, we’re the ‘baseline’ that they’re balancing everyone else to. Don’t believe me? We haven’t had a significant change (in number or severity) since pre 3.0.

What tools do you use to evaluate your own performance as a damage dealer?
Did the boss die? Yes? Carry on then. No? Get kicked, sulk.

What do you think is the biggest misconception people have about your class?
That I would be happy to be their fucking meals on wheels taxi vending machine. GET FUCKED, YOU SHOULD OF ROLLED A SHIT CLASS IN BC TO GET THE PRIVILEGE OF PORTING TO PLACES THAT ARE USEFUL. Ofc, with a tip, sure, I can take you where you want.

What do you feel is the most difficult thing for new dpsers of your class to learn?
There’s something hard about pressing two different buttons? If they leveled a mage (not a fage, or a fail mage, or frost mage, whatever you prefer, they might need to learn to be good, who knows) they should know how easy we die.

What dps class do you feel you understand least?
… I have no idea. Warlocks, despite not understanding why, I understand how. Rogues, I dislike playing, but I understand. Hunters have guns, they shoot them. I’m fairly certain that that is all the DPS classes that would be DPSing in any of my raids. :P

What add-ons or macros do you use, if any, to aid you in dps?
I use a fuck ton of addons, but none are ‘dps’ enhancers. SBF, I guess, I have it give me easy to see bars for my procs/AB debuff.

Strength over other stats or balanced stat allocation, and why? Spellpower. Sure, haste is okay (but lame) and crit is fun (but for FIRE). There’s a reason we only gem +23 or whatever it was SP apart from setting up our meta gem or getting hit.

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Project Loremaster : Terror of Tirisfal

Posted on August 9, 2009 by TwilliK| Leave a comment

Wewt! Completed all of Tirisfal Glades’ quests over the last few days, os now Pyrin is level 15 and heading off to sunny ole Durotar. I had written a sentance and a half about how I’d have to run across the barrens, but I realised that there is a Org <–> TB Zep now. I is a bit silly.

Now for the stats;

I look like a warlock, how sneaky.

I look like a warlock, how sneaky.

Yay for more post break stats!.

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Lazy Screenshot Post is Lazy

Posted on August 7, 2009 by TwilliK| Leave a comment

Alright, I put most of my 3.2 ranting into that wonderful podcast you see below this post, so I didn’t have much to talk about. But, thanks to my random screenshots I figured I could upload some of them and talk about them as a fantastically easy way to write a ~2000 word post. (What, I picture is worth a thousand words, right? I’ve got two.)

In addition, there are a bunch of comments from the crazed loon herself (Look who’s talking – Selite), all of which are in curved brackets, with a ‘- Selite’ or ‘- S’ at the end. I might figure out a more unified way to do this in the future, but it works for now.

Frumpy Human Form, FTW?

Frumpy Human Form, FTW?

Clicky on the Image to make it nice and big. (1680×1050, about 2mb) It’s frumpy human form, in the worst version of the best instance around. (Around being defined as ‘In Stratholm’) Fun instance, but I still wonder why they couldn’t of turned some of us (me) into high elves, others into Dwarves, but no Gnomes (they were in Gnomers dying all of WC3) or Draenai (EREDAR!) or Nelfs (they were across the sea, remember?). I do actually like how Sel looks as a human, I actually like the grey hair, I think it looks cool (Really? Really? – Selite) but I’m fairly sure that it’s partially due to the hair style. Remind me to goto the Barber to see if I can get it done like that. (What? Nooooooo! – Selite)

RAWR! BEARZ ARE 4 RIDIN!

RAWR! BEARZ ARE 4 RIDIN!

This is a fairly simple picture, of Sel in some slightly older gear (it was taken a few days before 3.2 :P) ON A FREAKIN BEAR. I don’t care what you say, bears are cool. (I don’t like them, they smell funny – Selite) At the Oracle town, obviously buying a [Mysterious Egg] or something, as I doubt I’d go there otherwise. (The Gorlocks smell like fish; at least they aren’t annoying and childlike like the Wolvar – Selite)

Alright, well, I should go take some more pictures, like ones on [Rivendare's Deathcharger] and Cronormi (A [Bronze Drake], if you can’t see the WoWhead tooltips), or just of me jumping off of shit, then IBing at the last possible second. Man, I am so stupid sometimes… (You’ve got a fucking death wish, you mean – Selite)

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